Vicente Zambada Niebla

Vicente "El Vicentillo" Zambada Niebla (24 March 1975-) was the son of Ismael Zambada Garcia and an important lieutenant of El Chapo's Sinaloa Cartel.

Biography
Vicente Zambada Niebla was born in Culiacan, Sinaloa, Mexico in 1975, the son of Ismael Zambada Garcia and the brother of Serafin Zambada Ortiz and Ismael Zambada Imperial. He was nicknamed "Vicentillo", and he became an important figure within the Sinaloa Cartel, serving as a key asset for the cartel's rapid expansion into every continent in the world and as the cartel's chief of international relations (visiting countries such as Russia and Malaysia to recruit business partners). He was arrested in Mexico City on 19 March 2009 and extradited to the United States in February 2010, and, on 30 May 2019, he was sentenced to 15 years in prison. However, after Zambada testified against several other Sinaloa Cartel members, his sentence was reduced.